Originally Posted by
Tim Rinkerman
Thanks for the interest and suggestions, guys..here's a couple pic's before they got dis-mantled. I did some minor surgery on one of the 2215's..it had a a very minor rub point in its travel, so I had to soak the spider off of the frame and go inside and hope the voice coil wasn't junk. Luckily, it wasn't..just a very tiny bit of debris got stuck to the outside of the voice coil. I carefully picked it off with an X-acto knife and checked for clean movement in the gap. That worked out perfectly, so surgery no.2 separated the dome from the voice coil to allow me to get shims into the gap to reassemble the speaker properly. The 2215 seems to have a tighter gap than other JBL's I have worked on, but all is well now. I have taken everybody's suggestions into account about restoring these, and as much as I want to respect the originality of them, back in the day, the gray finish was the "utility" finish...meaning that you cared more about how they sounded as opposed to how they looked, or, you were going to put them in your own surroundings, and finish them to match. I have gone through 4 rounds of filling,sanding, and blocking to get them back to square and to just shoot them with gray paint just doesn't sit well with me. I am going ahead with plans to cover the sides,top,bottom, and front edges with walnut veneer, the back in semi gloss black, and the front baffle JBL blue, IF I can get an exact match of the color. The grills, although completely intact, are somewhat aged looking. The black grill cloth looks kind of threadbare for its age, if anybody wants it, let me know, it's going to get replaced with JBL blue. I'll get more pictures up when the woofers come out of ICU.....